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Thousands Of Children To Receive Free Cooking Courses This Summer

Mums and dads
will have life made a little bit easier this summer thanks to new cooking
courses for 4,500 children across the UK.

The fun
courses will help tackle fundamental gaps in children's kitchen knowledge.

The courses
have been launched at the same time as research that finds over two thirds of
parents worry that children are growing up without basic cooking skills and 75
per cent of children have never boiled an egg.

Thousands of
mums and dads will have their lives made easier this summer thanks to a brand
new series of special Farm to Fork Cooking courses for children.

The courses
will be run jointly with The Children's Food Trust and will take place in 50
Tesco stores right across the country every week throughout August. An
estimated 4,500 children aged between 5 and 13 will take part.

As well as
providing something educational, fun and free for children to do in the summer
holidays, the courses will help tackle fundamental gaps in children's knowledge
about cooking tasty meals and snacks.

According to
research commissioned by Tesco published today, despite the popularity of TV
cooking programmes over two thirds (nearly 67 per cent) of mums and dads worry
that children today are growing up without basic cooking skills and food
knowledge.

And over half
(52 per cent) admit they spend significantly less time cooking for their
children than their own parents did, despite the fact that more than half of
mums and dads (just over 51 per cent) are worried about the long term impact of
diet on their children's health. More than nine out of ten (93 per cent)
secondary school teachers are also shocked by the minimal knowledge about food
their pupils have.

The research
also found that that fewer than half (47.9 per cent) of schoolchildren have
turned their hand to basics like chopping food with a knife, three quarters (75
per cent) have never boiled an egg and seven out of ten (71 per cent) have
never cooked pasta.

The Farm to
Fork Cooking courses, part of The Tesco Eat Happy Project, will help give
children the skills in the kitchen to cook a variety of healthy, nutritious
meals from couscous salad to mango chicken pittas and tasty tomato pasta.

Chris Bush,
UK Managing Director for Tesco said:

“School's now
finished for the summer, and I know mums and dads around the UK will appreciate
having something fun and free to keep kids entertained during the holidays. I
know these courses will be great fun, kids love learning about food, but they
will also help children learn more about their food – where it comes from, how
to prepare it, and of course how to cook it.

“We've taken
over a quarter of a million children to Tesco stores, farms and factories as
part of The Eat Happy Project to help children understand more about where
their food comes from, and the natural next step is helping children find out
about different ingredients and how to cook with them.

“We hope
these courses will make a real difference in helping the next generation lead
healthier lives.”

Linda Cregan,
CEO of the Children's Food Trustsaid:

“An important
part of The Eat Happy Project is learning how and what to cook for a healthy
balanced diet, a crucial life skill. Helping children grow confidence in the
kitchen and learn more about healthy eating is a something we've been doing for
seven years through our national network of 5000 school and community based
cooking clubs.

“Our
partnership with Tesco allows us to reach even more children and their
families. Our team is going to be cooking with youngsters in 50 different
stores across the country throughout the summer and from our experience we know
how hands on cooking sessions encourage children and their families to try new
food and eat more healthily making a real difference to their lives."

Tesco's Eat
Happy Project is part of a much wider ambition to help children live healthier
lives. Billions of calories have been removed from Tesco food ranges, and Tesco
will be the first major retailer to remove sweets and chocolate from checkouts
across all stores by January 2015.

As part of
The Eat Happy Project, children can also take part in Online Field Trips, which
allow classes of primary school children to talk to food producers and
suppliers around the world from their own classrooms.

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